Cleaning the Church

Allie's final in parish service project for confirmation was to clean the church...so we took Dermot along to help.



 
 
 
 
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Pictures from play night





Dermot Basketball #2

Dermot basketball #1

Deirdre's School Play #2

This was the final song with all of the kids combined. At least in this one you can kind of hear the kids singing.

Deirdre's School Play

Admittedly I don't have a very steady hand, but here's the video of Deirdre's "solo".

I have to say I was a little disappointed. After all the build up about how cool it was that a 1st grader actually had a "solo", the "play" was little more then a bunch of kids singing along to recorded songs, and the songs were played so loudly that you couldn't even hear the kids.

That being said, Deirdre was of course hysterical!

I couldn't resist

I was going to tell Allie it was time to leave for PSR and she just looked too cute doing her Math on the whiteboard Mark painted for her on her bedroom wall :-)



 
 
 
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What a difference 5 1/2 years makes



July 17, 2004





Summer 2009

My how she has grown.

We have been taking a picture of Allie for at least 7 years now on Christmas Eve posing on Beeka's stairs. It's amazing to look these, it really shows how much she has grown up!



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2009

An early toast

The kids enjoy an early toast with sparkling grape juice in fancy glasses.




New Year's Eve..

As we prepare to bring 2009 to a close... the kids enjoy their chocolate "fundo". A tradition from my childhood that the next generation thouroughly enjoys!




More tree decorating pics


Taking a break for a picture

You can always tell which ornaments the D's have hung...they seem to think everything needs to be on one branch!

Can't we all get along for one evening?


Dermot watching Daddy as he puts the Christmas Elf in the tree.